The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-09-03
PERSONAL.

George Innes, the artist, is at the Preblt
House.
Hon. George D. BiSbee, of Buckfeld. is in
the city.
Hon. George G. Wing, of Auburn, was in
the city yesterday.
Senator Mcpherson, of New Jersey, was
at Bryant's Pond last week.
j. ID. Stockton, treasurer of the st. Johns
Railway, Florida, is in the city.
DIR. 5. ii. Weeks is in Washington to at
tend the national medical congress-
Hon. Fred. Il. Richards, the Bank Exam.
liner, is registered at the Falmouth.
Private Thomas, of the Signal Service, left
for his new post. at Oswego. yesterday.
Rev. MIR. Lowden will return today and
preach at Plymouth Church Sunday as usu-
al
MIR. Ruel Small and wife are visiting Beth
ell and vicinity. They will return next
week.
Mr.. Henry F. Dexter, Colby "a, has been
ordained pastor of the Baptist church al
Hartland
Hon. Caleb A. Chaplin, of Harrison, has
nearly recovered from the effect of his acct
utHI last winter.
MIR. M. b. Gilbert has returned from his
vacation and will commence his dancing
school on October 1st
Mr. Frederick Fox, assistant professor of
chemistry in the Boston Institute of Tech
nology, has been spending few weeks at
his former home in this city.
Mr.. II. ID. Dow, Colby 1877, who was elect
ed principal OF the Albion High School,
has resigned and Mr.. A. L. Snow, of the
same class, will occupy the position.
The magnificent granite statue of Ex-Gov.
West, of Ohio. which the Hallowell Granite
Co. has been engaged upon for some months,
Is finished and will be shipped shortly.
MI. A. e. Hines has resigned his position
as secretary of the Augusta Y. Nj. c. A., and
has accepted the general secretaryship of a
large and hourishing association in the State
of New Jersey.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. l.. Parker, for many
years connected with the manage
ment Of the Ohio Industrial School for BOYS,
but Of late with the Lyman School, of Mas
sachusetts, are visiting Portland.
Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, who is spending
the summer with her family at Campobello,
where they have handsome cottage deliv-
cred an address in the Unitarian Church.
in PASSPORT, last Sunday morning.
Mrs. Sybl Farris, wife of Samuel Farris.
OF China, has received pension and arrears
of 1927 on account of her son who was in
the late civil war. The son had bounty of
$500 at the time of his enlistment. He died
in the service.
The new weekly paper which Mr.. Harry
Andrews will start at Auburn will be called
The Speaker, and the first publication will
be September 14th. The Speaker will be
seen and heard all over the State. MIR. An
drews is brilliant journalist and his paper
can hardly fail to be great success.
Prof. Wheeler, who resigned the Profess
sorship of Latin in Bowdoin. to accent the
Professorship of the same department in the
University of Virginia, has been compelled
to resign there, owing to serious illness from
heart disease. His life at times has been
despaired of, but August 9th he was little
more comfortable and able to ride out his
present residence being at Newbury, vt.
Engineer Buchanan, of the Boston Board
OF Health's boat Vigiant, against whom the
Marine Engineers Society complained, be.
cause he was not taxpayer of that city,
has taken his family from Portland and in
stalled them in tenement in East Boston.
where for six years he has been boarding.
He has also attended to the duty of registra-
ton and is now regularly at work on the
steamer, the complaints having been dis
charged